The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread

[Mrs Pingu]

90's X Files episodes

I've just looked it up, and it kept going until 2002.  I think I gave up on it in 1998 or so, and then didn't have a telly for ages.  Did anything ever get resolved?

There was another 2 series after that in 2016 and 2018.

[Beardy]

Didn't Mulder finally get to properly tend Scully's allotment?

I may have dreamed that one, of course.

I seem to remember the production of a sox¹ from a weeding session, though Mulder didn’t find out about it until sometime later as befits the conspicuous nature of the show

1. Sculy/Fox highbred.

[ian]

Captain Clumsyfingers, having finally banished the yellow clouds of turmeric, ventured back into the kitchen last night to retrieve the cat food, pulling out the sachet and simultaneous dislodging a pack of 10 cans of some other cat food, which, of course, landed on my bare foot. Despite not falling very far as the cupboard is at ground level (the cans were on the top shelf, so about knee height), it really fucking hurt and made me utter a number of very bad words. The boundless sympathy of my wife stretched to why don't you look what you're doing? which I suppose is unsympathetically accurate. Bad Cat just gnawed my ankle (Little Monster Cat, being wiser, just patiently waits by her bowl).

Big fat bruise now and I won't be wearing party heels for a few days.

[Kim]

90's X Files episodes

I've just looked it up, and it kept going until 2002.  I think I gave up on it in 1998 or so, and then didn't have a telly for ages.  Did anything ever get resolved?

There was another 2 series after that in 2016 and 2018.

I'm sure I must have known that.   

[woollypigs]

and not to forget the movie

[ian]

and not to forget the movie

Why not, everyone else did.

[Deano]

Situation: two wheels for my Giant, one slightly dodgy hub, one knackered hub,

Just bought a shiny new 32-hole hub, planned to use it with my still quite nice 32-hole rim, and use the slightly dodgy hub from that with the rim from the hub that's completely knackered, which will be relegated to the box of random spares.

I stripped the wheel, carefully labelled the spokes (drive side leading etc), and looked and thought I didn't seem to have enough spokes. At that point, I counted the holes in the rim.

Anyone want a 28-hole rim?

[Mr Larrington]

and not to forget the movie

There were two, but the second one was a Rubbish.

The Lone Gunmen had their own spin-off too, but Fox canned it after a single season.

[woollypigs]

bugger I missed that

[ian]

and not to forget the movie

There were two, but the second one was a Rubbish.

The Lone Gunmen had their own spin-off too, but Fox canned it after a single season.

Didn't they all die spectacularly and suddenly? (checks Google, it seems they were cancelled, came back to the X-Files where they were more spectacularly cancelled with a biological agent, presumably not one of Mulder's ripe ones).

[Mr Larrington]

After their series got canned they came back for one ep in S9 in order to be killed utterly to DETH and buried in Arlington, though Langly popped up in one episode of series 11 having been uploaded to the Internets before getting deaded.

[Ham]

This cash machine has gone odd - much stranger responses. Oh well, gimme my money.

Oh, I just used a credit card.

[ian]

Don't knock it, I used to have a top-loading VCR with a mysterious set of front panel LEDs that I eventually discovered worked as a ouija board to communicate with the teeming dead. Not one of whom was willing to tweak the tracking.

[T42]

Halfway round today's toddle I put in my order at the coffee/cake shop then sat down and realized that I'd left wallet & papers at home.  No problem: I've been going there for 15+ years to they not only put it on a tab but insisted on lending me 10€ just in case.  Nice people.

[andytheflyer]

Last year I had the flu jab for the first time.  A few hours later I had to retreat to bed to sweat out the side effects.

Yesterday I had this year's flu jab.

Felt horrible all day and sat in front of the telly for 5 hours re-watching the current series of Shetland, with the gas fire on flat out.

You'd think I might have learned...

And I've got the Covid booster on Saturday, and I had a reaction to the first jab.  Not looking forward to this.

[TheLurker]

... this year's flu jab. Felt horrible all day...

Sympathy, but got to be better than going down with the real thing.  Definitely a YMMV thing, though.  I had my flu jag last week (my first ever, my but that makes me feel *old*) as did MrsL.  No reaction at all for either of us.  Don't get our boosters until mid Dec.  Be interesting to see if either of us react to that as we didn't get a huge reaction to the AZ.

[andytheflyer]

... this year's flu jab. Felt horrible all day...

Sympathy, but got to be better than going down with the real thing.  Definitely a YMMV thing, though.  I had my flu jag last week (my first ever, my but that makes me feel *old*) as did MrsL.  No reaction at all for either of us.  Don't get our boosters until mid Dec.  Be interesting to see if either of us react to that as we didn't get a huge reaction to the AZ.

Well, the upside of the flu jab adverse reaction (apart I suppose from getting the flu itself) was that I spotted a few clues in the Shetland mystery that I'd missed previously, but there's still a few things I'm obviously missing.  All will be revealed in the last episode this coming Wednesday.  Doubtless DI Perez will crack the case, again. My elder daughter's a DI and I can't see her cracking it.......

[T42]

Ah well, a strong reaction implies that your immune system took notice and swung into action, so you should be well-protected.  Folk like me, however, whose immune systems said "yeah, so what?", maybe not.  I had a 3-month dose of Vit.D two days before, too.

[CommuteTooFar]

I thought I had lost my wallet. I knew where it was it was in my coat pocket where I last used it. It was not there, a frantic search all over the house followed. Just as I was about to ring the bank to cancel cards I realised I looked in the pocket of the wrong coat.

[Mrs Pingu]

Got one of those Ikea Alex drawer sets.
Built it.
Puzzled by the drawers not fitting in the way I expected.
I built it upside down, didn't I? 

(In my defence it was not obvious which was up the side panels should be oriented in the instructions)

[Kim]

Took barakta to the pool for a shower and some extracurricular hydroterrorism.  We cunningly checked the timetable to ensure that we went after the boom change^[1] and when all children^[2] in onesies^[3] had dissipated.  What we failed to notice was that the pool depth was 2.0m.   

Cue some partially arsed leg-wiggling on the wheelchair lift, and a bit of stair-stepping.  Swimming is still verboten.


_{[1] When they take the pool out of commission to convert it from two 25m pools to a single 50m pool, or vice-versa.
[2] Because you can forget about the accessible changing rooms being  a) available  or  b) clean  at children o'clock.
[3] At some point in the decades since I had swimming lessons, it became compulsory to wear a onesie on the way home.}

[andrewc]

So is barakta now wearing a onesie, or do we need to buy something suitable for Christmas ? 

[Kim]

Not a onesie in sight.  It turns out that 2-metre full-length pool time is when the budgie smugglers^[1] come out.


_{[1] A brand of antipodean swimwear who can't maintain a web server.}

[grams]

Changing the pool depth requires a foot note too for those who don’t live in the future like you. Does the floor move or is there a huge drop from the sides?

[mrcharly-YHT]

Changing the pool depth requires a foot note too for those who don’t live in the future like you. Does the floor move or is there a huge drop from the sides?

I'm guessing the floor lifts/lowers. Not uncommon in modern swimming pools.